Promise gold mountains and the covetous
- DMI number:
- 13615
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Promise gold mountains and the covetous
- Last Line:
- One baseness still accompanies another
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Dialogue and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Money / wealth
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Devil is an ass Act 1 Scene 5. Bevington (2012) IV.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Devil is an Ass
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Devil is an ass.
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